Wordsworth
Selected Works of the Bronte Sisters
56%
»Jane Eyre» ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although…
The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens
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This collection brings together perhaps the finest of Dickens' shorter novels, filled with event,…
The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories
78%
»...it is an universal phenomenon of our nature that the mournful, the fearful, even the horrible,…
Irish Ghost Stories
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With a word of warning to those of nervous a disposition, Wordsworth presents this spellbinding…
Lady Chatterley's Lover
57%
Lawrence's uncompromisingly candid novel deals in poetic and sexually explicit language with the…
Book of Humorous Quotations
97%
From Oscar Wilde's witty observation in Lady Windermere's Fan that 'I can resist everything except…
Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets.…
The Last Man
56%
»The Last Man» is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the…
The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories
77%
These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one…
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
87%
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for «War and Peace» and «Anna Karenina», commonly…
Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems
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Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its…
Travels in the Interior of Africa
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In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old Scottish surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the…
The Canterbury Tales
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The Canterbury Tales tells the story of 30 pilgrims who meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in…
The Eighth Passenger
85%
When «The Eighth Passenger» was first published it was acclaimed as one of the most remarkable…
The Forsyte Saga
98%
When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was…
Gothic Short Stories
87%
This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with…
The House of Mirth
86%
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a…
The Iliad and The Odyssey
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Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the…
What Maisie Knew
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The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange…
The Man in the Iron Mask
78%
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated…